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H'URDY-GURDY WATER WHEEL.

Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

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No. 553,097. Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

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PATENT FRANCIS M. BOOKW'ALTER, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

HURDY-GURDY WATER-WHEEL.

SPEGIFZGATION forming part of Letters yatent No. 553,097, dated January 14, 1896.

Application filed February 7, 1896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, FRANCIS M. BOOKWAL- TER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hurdy-Gnrdy WVater- \Vhcels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hurdy-gurdy waterwheels.

The object of my invention is to construct a horizontal hurdy-gurdy water-wheel with the buckets on the lower or ground side of the wheel and to combine therewith one or more water-nozzles arranged below the buckets, the buckets being preferably designed to discharge the water laterally, and the nozzles being preferably in a circular path correthe water dividing or entering edge of the buckets is located.

My invention also embraces other features which will be hereinafter more fully pointed out and particularly set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved water-wheel, the section being taken. on the line :c as of Fig. 2; Fig. 2 a plan view of the wheel with the buckets, water-troughs, and nozzles shown in dotted lines beneath the plate forming the body of the wheel; Fig. 3, a similar plan view of a portion of the wheel, showing adouble series of nozzles; Fig. 4, a vertical sectional view of the form shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a similar plan view to Fig. 3, showing the buckets in single instead of double form; Fig. 6, a vertical sectional View of the form shown in Fig. 5; Fig. 7, a plan view; and Fig. 8 a sectional view on the line :1, 'y of Fig 7, showing another form of supply-conduit.

The letter A designates a shaft suitably supported above and mounted at its lower end on a step 13 supported by the hub O of a spider D connected to the water-trough E. On this shaft is mounted the wheel proper, consisting of a disk F with a hub G and formed on its lower side with a body I-l curved downward from the plate so as to the inwardly-dis charged water escaping from end near which the last nozzle is located.

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the buckets. Connected to this disk, preferably by being cast in one piece therewith, are the buckets which I have shown in double series I in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4., and in single series J, which I have shown in Figs. 5 and 6. In the double-series form I have arranged the nozzles in two forms also-in the single series form K, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and in the double-series form, as shown at Z in Figs. 3 and 4.

In the single-series form of buckets I have shown the nozzles also in single-series form, as shown at M in Figs. 5 and 6.

Referring now specifically to the doubleseries form of buckets it will be seen that these buckets are composed of a bottom a, with sides I) and c, converging into the bottom, and of an upper side cl and a lower side 6. It will also be seen that the sides Z) meet to form awater entering or dividing edge f, and that this edge inclines so as to be substantially parallel to the discharge end of the nozzles, or substantiallyperpendicular to the axis of the nozzles, so as to properly receive the stream of water. By preference the upper sides of the buckets project somewhat above the disk or plate F so as to give the buckets the proper inclination.

The water-trough or supply-conduit IE, it will be seen, occupies a position beneath the buckets, and that it is gradually contracted in size or width so that it will carry the proper quantity of water to duly supply all of the nozzles, and yet gradually grow smaller as the remaining nozzles to be filled grow less in number, until finally it is smallest at its inner On the upper side of this trough or conduit I place or secure the nozzles, arranging the single series in Figs. 1 and 2 so that the stream that is discharged from them will first strike the side I) of the inner buckets, and will then, as the buckets move past the nozzles, gradually pass over to the outer side of the dividingridge, supplying both buckets for a time, and then finally will pass wholly into the outer buckets, which action is due to the fact that the streams are issuing in right lines while the buckets are traveling in a curved line. The dotted line 9 in Fig. 2 shows the axis of the stream, while the buckets at the point h are just passing into the stream, and at the point 7; are 'ust passing out of the stream and approaching the point where a moment later.

the stream of the next nozzle will enter them. Between the points h and 2' the action of the stream in passing first into the inner buckets, and then into both buckets, and finally into the outer buckets, takes place. Thus the maximum utilization of the stream is accomof the inner bucket is not quite radial, being inclined back from a radial line so as to set theinner discharge-edge of the inner bucket farther forward to facilitate the discharge of I the water, owing to the increasing acuteness of the angle between the edge 3 and the stream as the buckets revolve from each nozzle.

From these remarks it will be understood that the water discharges laterally from the buckets. Such is the case. Hence the curved bodyportionII for the purpose of downwardly directing the water that discharges inward.

' The remarks above made as to how the water first entered the inner bucket, then both buckets, then the outer bucket, apply equally to the inner series of nozzles in Figs. 3 and 4;

I but as to theonterseries of nozzles in said fig ures the action. is simply that of the water only playing into the outer series of buckets.

Referring now to the form shown in Figs. 5 and (3, it will beseen that the nozzles discharge first into the extreme inner portion of the buckets and then that the stream gradually works outward, at which time the next bucket enters into the path of the stream and takes the water. In each and all of the forms, however, the streams project upwardly and enter the buckets, produce impulse effects on the inner portion of each bucket and reactionary effects on the outer portion of each bucket, thereby acting with great efficiency and producing the maximum speed and power to be obtained from the head of water at hand. The nozzles are inclined in the direction of the stream running through the supply-conduit to facilitate the entrance of the water intothe nozzles.

Besides the manner in which the water enters the buckets, as stated in connection with Figs. 1, 2, 3, and e, I would observe that by directing the nozzles so that they would discharge inward across the line in which the dividing edge of the buckets revolve instead of outward across such line, the operation would be that of first entering the sides I) of the buckets, then crossing inward over the ridge and supplying both buckets, and fin ally entering only the inner buckets. The latter rcmarks apply to the nozzles shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and to the outer series of nozzles shown in Figs. 3 and at, while the operation in which, because of the inner series of nozzles shown in Figs. 3. and 4, would be the same as that described above for the outer series of noz- I zles shown in said Figs. 3 and i. I I

So far I have described but one form of supply-conduit.

Referring now to Figs. 7 and 8, it will be seen that the conduit I is providedwith hori zontal partitions E andE, dividing the conduit into sub-passages F, F, and F. Each sub-passage feeds one or more nozzles. =l3y means of a cut-off G,operated by a handscrew II working in a threaded lug I on the gate, I admit the water to one or more of the sub-passag'esQsotli'at any or all of them may be used at a time, according to the quantity 7 of Water at hand and the power required for the particular work to be done. This form of supply-conduit operating in conjunction with my improved hurdy-gurdy wheel enables the user to adapt the wheel to every possible practical condition arising indaily use.

I have referred tothe wheel as of disk form.

. but it is obvious that the disk may be divided up into spokes or may be made more or less open, as distinguished from an unbroken plate, and the term disk includes this.

Having thus fully described my invention. what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a hurdy gurdy water wheel, thecoming buckets on the lower side constructed to discharge laterally and a curved inner body portion, of a circular supply conduit under the buckets, and a series of nozzles projecting upward from the conduit and discharging into the buckets.

et. In a hurdy gurdy water wheel, the combination with a horizontal wheel proper, and buckets having their sides and bottom merging into one another so as to discharge laterally, and their upper and lower sides inclined to a horizontal, and nozzles inclined at su bstantially the same angle as said upper and lower sides.

5. In a hurdy gurdy water wheel, the combination with a horizontal wheel proper and buckets in double circular series, the meeting sides of each two buckets forming a water dividing edge, the sides of the buckets blending with the bottom to discharge laterally, and the upper and the lower sides of the buckets and the dividing edge being inclined, of a series of nozzles under the buckets and inclined upward toward them with their axes substantially in line with said incline of the upper and lower sides and substantially perpendicular to said water dividing edge.

6. In a hurdy gurdy water Wheel, the combination with the horizontal Wheel proper having buckets on the lower side in double circular series, which discharge laterally of a supply conduit beneath the buckets and a double circular series of nozzles discharging into the double series of buckets.

7. In a hurdy gurdy water Wheel, a wheel proper having buckets adapted to take Water from nozzles, of a circular conduit, a number of approximately horizontal partitions divid- FRANCIS M. BOOKWALTER.

Y'Vitnesses HORATIO J. FORGY, W. M. IVICNAIR. 

